Pune: Six persons succumbed to swine flu in Nashik, Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, Nagpur and Pune since the beginning of this year, prompting state health officials to step up vaccination of high-risk in

In 2017, there were 6,144 cases of H1N1 virus and 778 deaths across Maharashtra while in 2016, there were 82 cases of H1N1 virus and 22 deaths.

In the midst of Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, non-native species are a driving factor in many imperiled species’ declines. One of the most widespread and destructive alien invasive species in the world, wild pigs (Sus scrofa) threaten native species through predation, habitat destruction, competition, and disease transmission. We show that wild pigs co-occur with up to 87.2% of imperiled species in the contiguous U.S. identified as susceptible to their direct impacts, and we project increases in both the number of species at risk and the geographic extent of risks by 2025.

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat, which recorded the second-highest mortality due to swine flu in 2017